The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-31
COMMENT AND OPINION.

A LIBERAL reward is offered for the discovery
of an anti saloon movement among the Demo
Gratis. Detroit Tribune.
AMONG other rights that should be preserved,
is the right of every laborer at a coal mine to
trade at what store he pleases. Free trade of
that sort will not be unpopular among the
working classes of Pennsy lvania.- PittSburg
Dispatch
ORGANIZED tabor has gone through bitter
experience with its leaders. But we don't doubt
there are Knights capable of handling the or
1t is to be hoped. for the interest of the general
public, that they win soon be found.-New York
Graphic.
LET our ant-tariff friends drop the senti-
mental issue and stick to business. Is pro-
tective tariff a substantial benefit to the United
States a wholel That is the only question.
Money talks and our nation has vast amount
of money that speaks for protective tariff.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
THE way to complete temperance reform is
not by destroying the Republican party. for it
will not be deststroyed But, if prohibition is
to triumph, its triumph might be fastened by
submitting the principle only at a special cleo
ton, and separating the question entirely from
party politics. Chicago Journal.
ONE of the valid objections to prohibition, be-
sides its impracticability and its attempt to pre-
vent equally the and the abuse of spirituous
liquors, is that it reserves all its penalties for
the seller while regarding the drinker as an in
nocent victim entirely relieved from any respon-
sibility for his acts.-Milwaukee Sentinel.
BISMARCK is the peacemaker. but the remain
ing span of the Emperor's waning life will mark
the limit of the peace OF Europe. The false
report of his death yesterday caused short
panic in the markets of the world. The con-
frmation of such a report would cause wild
havoc amidst the exchanges of the continent
Washington Republican.
WHEN in social life and in commercial life
and in public life we'll the line is sharply
drawn between the drunkard tippler and the
man of proved sobriety, there will be an effect
i've restraint upon those who drink. and pow
erful encouragement to those who are temperate
and sober by habit and from conviction
Charleston News and Courier
THIRTY years ago a man having n thousand
dollars was not regarded poor, yet hundred
times as many have much as that to-day
had the same amount then. If started
with thousand dollars ten years ago and has
five thousand to day, he is still not rich, but he
is worth five times as much as he was at the
start.-Philadelphia North American.
q GREAT portion of the workingmen of this
country know that they have been and are ben
Gifted far moro by the protective tariff than by
all the organizations they have supported.
Whenever labor leaders begin to play into the
hands of free traders, they are generally trying
to serve their personal ambitions interests,
and not the interests of American workingmen.
New York Tribune.
THE obstacle to the settlement of Mexico by
outsiders is the native hostility to FOREIGNERS
and the inefficient way in which the laws
administered. So long bandit like Bernal
can set whole State at defiance and even treat
with contempt the federal authority. 1t Is use
less for Mexico to expect foreign immigration
to settle up the country to develop her re-
sources.-San Francisco Chronicle.
THE objection to the confirmation of Lamar is
that there is demand that he should be placed
upon the bench of the Supreme Court because
he was a confederate. That is rot good affirm
alive reason for such an appointment or conir-
nation. II there is one place where confeder-
ate who made war upon the United States gov
eminent should never be found, it is the Su-
preme bench and there is much that is rea-
sonable in this exclusive discrimination that it
is a DEVELOPMENT OF audacity that the proDriety
OF it should be questioned. Cincinnati CONNER
cial Gazette.
THE common thought that the wife lives by
terly false and very mischievous. The woman
who orders home well. and brings up her
husbands children in right admonition, is not in
the position of dependent upon bounty She
fairly all that the husband give her,
whether of money for her comfortable manten-
ance or of affectionate reverence and respect.
Denied the best that her husband provide,
she is robbed as outrageously. and in
ardy fashion, as it is possible to conceive.
New I DIRK Commercial Advertiser.
WHILE these combatants ION the Reading rail-
road are fighting out their battle it is possible
that grave consequences may come to the gen
eral community. Mills and factories may be
forced to shut down; thousands of families may
be brought to suffering; tens of thousands may
be driven into ldleness. A strike which shuts
off the coal supply in the dead of winter is a
matter of the most serious Importance, and it
is taking a tremendous responsibility to pre-
cpitate such danger. 1t may become neces-
sary to make it clear that the public have rights
which all the parties are bound to respect
Philadelphia Press.